Texas Tech University

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‘Vision and Tradition: The Campaign for Texas Tech’ has surpassed $900 million as funds are raised toward its $1 billion goal. Already surpassing gifts raised from previous campaigns, the ‘Vision & Tradition’ capital campaign is easily the most successful and largest fundraising effort in the history of the Texas Tech University System, university leaders report.

“We’re so close to reaching our $1 billion goal,” said Kelly Overley, vice chancellor and chief operating officer of the Texas Tech Foundation, Inc. “We’re confident we can celebrate its completion before our anticipated deadline.”

Kent Hance, chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, added, “Our alumni and friends have a longstanding history of generosity when it comes to supporting the universities of the Texas Tech University System. This tradition has continued and helped make a tremendous impact during a time when many other institutions’ fundraising efforts have diminished due to a declined economy.”

The capital campaign, which includes Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Angelo State University, is one of 14 billion-dollar campaigns being currently conducted at higher education institutions in the country. Publically announced in September 2010, the ‘Vision & Tradition’ capital campaign is scheduled to end in August 2013.

“The entire development team has done an outstanding job engaging our donors,” said Ed Whitacre, co-chairman of the ‘Vision and Tradition: The Campaign for Texas Tech.’ “The success of this campaign is due to the professional staff who work tirelessly to further the Texas Tech University System.”

Some of the areas that are being funded through this capital campaign are student scholarships and fellowships that will reward academic accomplishment and encourage diversity; faculty support through establishing endowments that attract world-class scholars who excel in teaching and research; and facility enhancements by building spaces where students and faculty can learn, discover and compete.

Facilities such as the Jones AT&T Stadium, Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, United Commons at the new residential hall off Boston Avenue and the new clinical simulation center in Odessa are a few examples where the component institutions are already benefiting from the capital campaign. “We’re less than $100 million away from the most ambitious campaign in our history,” Hance said. “We hope our donors will continue to come together to make this dream a reality.”

CONTACT: Jane Piercy, Director of Development and External Relations, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Texas Tech University at (806)742-2802 or jane.piercy@ttu.edu